Our colleague Suryapratim Roy has co-authored a new article with Dimitry Kochenov titled Citizenship is Anti-Rights.
Challenging Hannah Arendt’s iconic phrase the ‘right to have rights,’ they argue that citizenship is not the source of human rights, but is rather fundamentally anti-rights.
The piece explores how citizenship:
- Allows states to deny freedoms.
- Destroys social association.
- Legitimises majoritarian oppression against minorities.